The sun printing was pretty much a success. The process pictures were in the
previous post. After the hot July sun had baked the paint into the fabrics and they were fully dry, I removed the texturing materials. The pasta wanted to stick a bit but everything else was very easy to remove.
Note to self: Have containers ready to put all the bits in when you remove them from the fabric.
I was very happy to see that everything printed pretty well, even the transparent pieces. So here are the results.
This fleur-de-lis stencil printed amazingly well. You can see the pasta around the edges of the fabric also.
These two stencils also printed with a delightful clarity. The glass stones, pasta, and buttons printed nicely too.
The colors on this piece didn't bleed into each other as well as I wanted, but everthing on it printed well. Just look at the plastic grid.
But the back side of the piece is better in my opinion.
The colors are a bit softer and you can still see the grid nicely.
I also added a surprise piece. It was a surprise to me too. While the others were out getting sun-baked, I took another piece of fabric and wet it, then I poured two colors of paint on it and rubbed it around with gloved hands. I folded it, twisted it a bit and placed it on a bush to dry. (I didn't have another board ready - so I improvised.) Here is that result.
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Front. And yes that is silver sparkle on the fabric. |
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Same piece different orientation. Shown from the back. |
I have a book called "Transforming Fabric" that says that you can sunprint the wrinkles in fabric. I had to try it - and I love it. Of course as I was heat setting it, I kept trying to iron one of the wrinkles out - but it is just the color and not a real wrinkle. I would say that particular wrinkle sun printed perfectly.
So you can see why I say it was a success. The multi-colored piece with the grid is a bit stiff to the touch so I don't think I will use it for a bed quilt. But the hand is nice on all of the rest.
Will I repeat this? I am sure I will. I don't think I will use the Lumiere paints for it. They tend to leave a "glitter" on my hands. I am afraid that will rub off on things as it is used.
The Golden Liquid Acrylic artist paint did amazingly well. I have many colors in that paint. I will eventually add a few Dye-na-flow paints to my tool box for this.
Now the
pineapple. I tried the "canned pineapple" again. This time I made the rectangle 3" by 4" - last time it was 3" by 5". I also used two widths of colored strips. Once again the process was "interesting."
You will notice that I ended with white corners even though the strips that radiate to the corners are the colored strips. The truth is - the white was right there so I used it. I think I am working toward making a "Pineapple Surprise" quilt. Now what else do can I do to mix up the pineapple block? Ha ha, wait and see what I come up with. For now it is a mystery to me also.
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